Alan Alford

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Alan F. Alford, B Com., FCA, MBA, is an independent researcher
and author, who is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading
authorities on ancient mythology, mysticism and the origin of world
religions. His interests also encompass ancient wisdom,
archaeological anomalies, the origins of Homo sapiens, and the
nature of consciousness.

Born in 1961, Alan Alford gained a degree in Commerce from the
University of Birmingham in 1982, became a qualified chartered
accountant in 1985, and was awarded an MBA in 1993.

Prior to becoming a full-time author, Alan Alford worked as a
chartered accountant for several medium-sized PLCs in the UK,
gaining experience in the construction, aerospace and water supply
industries.

Alan Alford gained his chartered accountancy qualification with
first-time passes in 1985. He gained his degree in Commerce from the
University of Birmingham in 1982 (2:1 honours with distinction in
business decision-making). His MBA was awarded by Coventry
University in 1993. His GMAT score for MBA admission was 680 points,
placing him in the top 4 per cent of those graduates taking the
exam.

Alan Alford is married, with no children as yet, and he lives in
Walsall, England.

Alan’s aims in life are: firstly, to achieve personal spiritual
enlightenment; and secondly, to lay the groundwork for an eventual
unification of all the world’s religions.

In the mid-1980s, Alan Alford became intrigued by the ‘ancient
astronaut’ theory of Erich von Daniken, and began to devote a
significant portion of his spare time to researching the ancient
past, visiting the world’s ancient sites, and pondering the
eternal questions of who we are and where we come from. As at 2001,
he has visited more than twenty-four countries, including Greece,
Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, China and
Nepal, and he has personally carried out a fifteen-year literature
study on the many opposing theories which attempt to explain the
riddles of mankind’s mysterious past.

AN UPDATE FROM ALAN F. ALFORD
7th October 2002

To All on my Mailing List (Class 1)

As many of you will know, I have been working during the last year
on a new book 'Pyramid of Secrets' looking specifically at the Great
Pyramid of Giza. This book was scheduled to be published in
September 2002.

You can imagine my surprise when the Egyptian authorities, in
partnership with the National Geographic Channel, announced the live
opening of 'the Gantenbrink door' to be screened 16th-17th September
2002.

As you will probably know by now, a new robot successfully
drilled a 3/4 inch hole through the 3.5 inch thick limestone door
with the copper handles, and managed to insert a fibre-optic camera.
Then, the light was switched on, and the world held its breath... as
another 'door' was revealed.

What was found was actually a continuation of the passage,
blocked by another stone (no copper handles on this one), to form an
empty cavity about 8 inches by 8 inches by 8 inches. The
significance lies not in the cavity, of course, but in the
continuation of the passage and what lies beyond the new door (or,
more accurately, 'stone plug').

The media reaction to the discovery has been disappointing. It
has been widely dismissed as an anti-climax - a non-discovery. Some
Egyptologists have criticised Zahi Hawass for commercialising
archaeology and have even used the 'non-discovery' in an attempt to
discredit the theories of alternative researchers. For example,
Aidan Dodson, an archaeologist at Bristol University, England, told
the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph, 18th September:

³The tunnel is a disused shaft. Most people expected this. This
whole thing was blown out of all proportion by the lunatic fringe of
alleged archaeologists and pseudo-scientists. These people have
written best-selling books saying the Pyramid holds links to
Atlantis behind this door, and that archaeologists have deliberately
refused to examine this shaft because it shows civilisation was
10,000 years older than originally thought. It wouldn¹t surprise me
if Dr Hawass did this just to put these people down once and for
all.²

On 21st September I gave a talk at the 21st annual UFO Magazine
Conference at Leeds, England, in an attempt to correct some of the
misconceptions about the new discovery (I had originally been
scheduled to speak about another subject entirely, so the timing was
a happy coincidence!). I told the audience there - as I am telling
all of you now - that this discovery is highly significant.

Firstly, note that the shaft is *not* terminated by 'the
Gantenbrink door', as Aidan Dodson might like to think it is. In
fact, the shaft is quite clearly continued. This is highly
significant.

Secondly, the shaft is plugged by a stone block. As I explained
to the UFO Magazine audience at Leeds, there is a clear precedent
for this plugging of passages in the Great Pyramid's Ascending
Passage, the bottom of which was originally plugged by three granite
stones. When the mouth of the passage was opened in antiquity to
reveal the lowest of those three stones blocking the passage, the
discoverer could not have imagined that the stone plug indicated the
gateway to an undreamed of system of passages and chambers above,
i.e. the whole upper system of the Great Pyramid. Bearing this
precedent in mind, I will be very excited indeed if the stone plug
behind 'the Gantenbrink door' turns out to be made of granite. And I
will be even more excited if it turns out that there are three
plugs, installed one behind the other. Of course, I may be wrong,
there may be only one plug, and it may be limestone as Gantenbrink
thinks it is. But anyway, just in case I'm right, you read it here
first!

Thirdly, as I argue in my new book 'Pyramid of Secrets', there is
a pattern of concealment running throughout the Great Pyramid from
top to bottom, and the shafts of the Queen's Chamber, with their
concealed mouths (opened by Waynman Dixon in 1872) fit this pattern
perfectly. The orthodox theory of the Great Pyramid being a tomb,
and the Queen's Chamber shafts being ventilation shafts, or
soul-shafts, or star-shafts or serdab-shafts, cannot explain the
fact that these channels were sealed off at the time of
construction.

At the Leeds conference 21st September, I urged exploration of
the Queen's Chamber's *northern* shaft, in which Gantenbrink's robot
had been thwarted by metal rods stuck in the passage. I predicted
that future exploration of this shaft would reveal a second 'Gantenbrink
door' with copper handles. I made this prediction live on camera
(there are video recordings) and I had also put it in writing
several weeks earlier in an article for a London newspaper. Two days
later, 23rd September, the Egyptian authorities announced that just
such a discovery had been made!!! I made the prediction with
confidence because I know what these copper-handled doors are! I
will explain it all in my new book.

But the more imporant thing is what lies beyond the doors in
these two shafts. The mystery continues... But I have a very good
idea of what is going to be found in the end... because I have a
very good idea about *why* the Great Pyramid was built. It is this
"why" question that is the focal point of my investigation
in 'Pyramid of Secrets'.

Anyway, the purpose of this brief email, apart from bringing some
of you up to date with happenings at Giza, is to let you know that
my book, obviously, is going to be delayed so that I can fully
incorporate the new findings about the shafts.

The revised publication date, taking allowance of the fact that
it was running late anyway, is now February 2003. Sorry about that,
but I can assure you it will be worth waiting for!

I can also inform you that I have stripped out from 'Pyramid of
Secrets' much of the material on ancient Egyptian religion and
mythology, which I will be publishing as a 'companion volume' in
October 2003. As you will see in February, the proper decoding of
Egyptian religion is the key to the understanding of the Great
Pyramid, hence the need for the detailed 'companion volume'.

Please forgive me for keeping you on tenterhooks. All will be
revealed shortly!

* Please forward a copy of this email to anyone whom you think
might be interested. *

"The foremost of the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World, the Great Pyramid is unique among Egyptian
pyramids in its precision and complex interior design. What
does this astonishing structure signify? Why was it built?
Numerous fantastic theories have sought to answer these
questions, but all have ultimately collapsed like waves upon
the firm shore of common sense. And yet doubts still persist
about the official view that the Pyramid is Œa tomb and
nothing but a tomb¹.In this ground-breaking book, Alan F.
Alford generates from first principles an elegant new theory
that has fundamental implications for future exploration of
this enigmatic monument. Tomb; repository/time capsule;
memorial to the creation of the Universe; broadcaster of low
frequency sound. Here, at last, is a plausible antidote to
the questionable theories of mainstream and alternative
writers."

(2001) In this book you will find a complete decoding
not only of Plato’s lost continent of Atlantis but also of
the entirety of Greek myths, mysteries and mysticism – all
decoded in the light of Alan Alford’s exploded planet
hypothesis. ‘The Atlantis Secret’ has been acclaimed as
‘a striking new hypothesis’ by Professor Christopher
Gill, an expert on Plato and Atlantis, who has contributed a
Foreword to the book.

(2000) In a masterly study of the origins of modern
religion. Alford argues that the religions of ancient Egypt
and Sumer were exploded planet cults, and he offers an
extraordinary decoding of the myths of the Flood and the
creation of man. He then demonstrates that Judaism and
Christianity are occulted forms of the same idea. We worship
an exploded planet but we don’t even realise it.

(1998) A ‘must read’ for Egyptophiles and
effectively two books in one. Whilst the early chapters
focus on the age of the Pyramids and the Sphinx, and
Alford’s controversial ‘adopted pyramids’ theory, the
second part involves a comprehensive decoding of the Pyramid
Texts, revealing that ancient Egyptian religion was an
exploded planet cult, with intriguing similarities to the
modern astronomical theory of Dr Tom Van Flandern.

(1996) Alford’s first book explores the
controversial idea that the gods of ancient mythology were a
flesh-and-blood race (based on the theory of Zecharia
Sitchin). Although much of the argument has since been
retracted, the book nevertheless remains attractive for its
coverage of a vast array of ancient mysteries, and its
wonderful photographs. Our limited print deluxe edition has
also become something of a collector’s item.

In 1996, Alan Alford self-published his first book ‘Gods of the
New Millennium’, in support of the theory of ‘ancient astronaut’
visitation, and began to sell it worldwide via the Internet. Within
a few months, the title was acquired by Hodder and Stoughton, who
relaunched it in 1997, at which time it became a number eleven
bestseller in the UK (it has subsequently been translated into nine
languages).

Since turning full-time researcher in 1996, Alan Alford has
published three further books.

In 1998, Alan Alford’s second book ‘The Phoenix Solution’
was published by Hodder and Stoughton. In this book, Alan focused
his attention on the mysteries of ancient Egypt and made the
historic discovery that the Egyptian religion had been an ‘exploded
planet cult’. This remarkable discovery – supported by the
eminent historian Michael Rice who wrote the Foreword to the book
– has shaped all of Alan’s subsequent work, and caused him to
retract a key portion of the ancient astronaut ‘evidence’ which
he cited in his first book.

In April 2000, Alan Alford’s third book ‘When The Gods Came
Down’ was published by Hodder and Stoughton. In this book, Alan
built upon his theory of ancient Egyptian religion to reveal that
ancient Mesopotamian religion, too, was an exploded planet cult, and
that Judaism and Christianity were – and still are – occulted
forms of the same idea. Controversially, he argued that the
crucifixion of Christ symbolised the death and resurrection of the
exploded planet, which had supposedly occurred at the beginning of
time. ‘When The Gods Came Down’ is widely recognised as one of
the boldest and most original books ever written on the subject of
religion.

In October 2001, Alan Alford self-published his fourth book ‘The
Atlantis Secret’, and began to sell it worldwide to a more limited
and discerning readership. In this book, Alan demonstrated that the
Greek religion was an exploded planet cult, and that Plato had
encoded the secret of the exploded planet into his Theory of Forms,
into his account of the creation of the Universe by the Demiourgos,
and into his story of the war between Ancient Athens and Atlantis.
Taking his lead from Plato, Alan brought out for the first time the
highly spiritual nature of the exploded planet idea. Quite
remarkably, Alan won support for his exploded planet theory of
Atlantis from none other than Professor Christopher Gill of Exeter
University in England – one of the world’s leading experts on
Plato and the Atlantis story – who penned a Foreword to the book.

Alan is currently working on a fifth book ‘Pyramid of Secrets’,
again to be self-published, in which he will unveil a historic
breakthrough as regards the meaning and purpose of the Great Pyramid
of Giza.